Author: fchrist
Date: Mon Jul 16 19:02:02 2012
New Revision: 1362195
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1362195&view=rev
Log:
STANBOL-691 reviewed start page
Modified:
incubator/stanbol/site/trunk/content/stanbol/index.mdtext
Modified: incubator/stanbol/site/trunk/content/stanbol/index.mdtext
URL:
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--- incubator/stanbol/site/trunk/content/stanbol/index.mdtext (original)
+++ incubator/stanbol/site/trunk/content/stanbol/index.mdtext Mon Jul 16
19:02:02 2012
@@ -1,53 +1,64 @@
-Title: Welcome to Apache Stanbol (incubating)
+Title: Welcome to Apache Stanbol!
<em>Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content
management.</em>
<p style="text-align: center;">
-</p>
-
-The Apache Stanbol (currently in [incubating](http://incubator.apache.org))
-[components](docs/trunk/components/) are accessed using RESTful web services.
-Apache Stanbol's main intended use is to extend traditional content management
-systems with semantic services. Other feasible use cases include: Direct usage
-from web applications (e.g. for Tag extraction/suggestion; or text completion
+![Apache Stanbol - the Semantic Engine](images/stanbol-semanticengine.png
+"Apache Stanbol is aimed at bringing semantic technologies to content
+management systems.")</p>
+
+Apache Stanbol is an effort undergoing
[incubation](http://incubator.apache.org)
+at [The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)](http://apache.org/).
+
+Apache Stanbol's intended use is to extend traditional content management
+systems with semantic services. Other feasible use cases include: direct usage
+from web applications (e.g. for tag extraction/suggestion; or text completion
in search fields), 'smart' content workflows or email routing based on
-extracted Entities/Topics, etc.
+extracted entities, topics, etc.
+
+In order to be used as a semantic engine via its services, all
+[components](docs/trunk/components/) offer their functionalities in terms of a
+RESTful web service API.
Apache Stanbol's main features are:
- **[Content Enhancement](docs/trunk/components/enhancer)**<br>
Services that add semantic information to ânon-semanticâ pieces of
content.
- **[Reasoning](docs/trunk/components/reasoner/)**<br>
- Services that are able to retrieve additional semantic information about the
content based on the semantic information retrieved via content enhancement.
+ Services that are able to retrieve additional semantic information about the
+ content based on the semantic information retrieved via content enhancement.
- **[Knowledge Models](docs/trunk/components/ontologymanager/)**<br>
- Services that are used to define and manipulate the data models (e.g.
ontologies) that are used to store the semantic information.
+ Services that are used to define and manipulate the data models (e.g.
+ ontologies) that are used to store the semantic information.
- **[Persistence](docs/trunk/components/contenthub/)**<br>
- Services that store (or cache) semantic information, i.e. enhanced content,
entities, facts, and make it searchable.
+ Services that store (or cache) semantic information, i.e. enhanced content,
+ entities, facts, and make it searchable.
-See also [Overview](overview.html) page for a more comprehensive list about
-features provided by Apache Stanbol. If you are a Developer you might also
-want to look at the [Components](docs/trunk/components/) page for further
-technical details.
-
-Used Technologies/Frameworks include:
-
-- Features provided as **RESTful Services** returning results as
- [RDF](http://www.w3.org/RDF/)(Resource Description Language) and
- [JSON](http://www.json.org/). Stanbol also supports the use of
+See the [overview page](overview.html) for a more comprehensive list of
+features provided by Apache Stanbol. If you are a developer, you might also
+want to look at the [components page](docs/trunk/components/) for digging into
+the technical details.
+
+Here is a short list of technologies and frameworks used by Apache Stanbol:
+
+- Functionalities are provided as **RESTful services** returning results as
+ [RDF](http://www.w3.org/RDF/) (Resource Description Language) and
+ [JSON](http://www.json.org/). Apache Stanbol also supports the use of
[JSON-LD](http://json-ld.org/).
-- Available as **Standalone application** (runable Jar) or **Web Archive**(WAR
- file) deployable on any Servlet Container such as Apache Tomcat.
-- Written in Java based on [OSGi](http://www2.osgi.org/Specifications/HomePage)
- as component framework
+- Apache Stanbol can be run as a **standalone application** (packaged as a
+ runable JAR) or as an **web application** (packaged as a WAR file) deployable
+ in servlet containers such as Apache Tomcat.
+- Written in Java based on the
[OSGi](http://www2.osgi.org/Specifications/HomePage)
+ as component framework.
- Implemented using frameworks such as [Apache
Solr](http://lucene.apache.org/solr/) - for semantic search; [Apache
Tika](http://tika.apache.org/) - for plain text and metadata extraction;
[Apache OpenNLP](http://opennlp.apache.org/) - for natural language
processing; [Apache Clerezza](http://incubator.apache.org/clerezza/) and
- [Apache Jena](http://jena.apache.org/) - as RDF framework and Storage;
- [Apache Felix](http://felix.apache.org) as default OSGI framework and
+ [Apache Jena](http://jena.apache.org/) - as RDF and storage frameworks;
+ [Apache Felix](http://felix.apache.org) as OSGi framework and
[Apache Sling](http://sling.apache.org) for deployment.
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The Apache Stanbol project was initiated by the European R&D project
[IKS](http://www.iks-project.eu) - Interactive Knowledge Stack for small to
@@ -56,7 +67,7 @@ funded by the IKS project, as well as by
who are [adopting Apache Stanbol](http://wiki.iks-
project.eu/index.php/Participants).
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